Horsehay Goats

Horsehay Goats Owned by Rhys Williams & Jade Rhodes. Chaos, cuddles & unapologetic goat mischief. Daily laughs from a very feral herd.

Est. 1979 — still causing problems in 2026 🌿💛🐐

🐐 CALLING ALL GOAT PEOPLE! 🐐This year, Horsehay Goats have been asked to do a few fun and educational displays within go...
30/05/2026

🐐 CALLING ALL GOAT PEOPLE! 🐐

This year, Horsehay Goats have been asked to do a few fun and educational displays within goat sections at shows — and we want them to be SUPER interactive and involving for everyone, especially children and families!

We’d love to hear your ideas, inspiration, or see any resources/photos you’ve used before 👀

So far we’re thinking along the lines of:
✨ educational displays
✨ photo opportunities
✨ “milk a goat” activities (if anyone has any ideas how please let me know! I need a wooden goat!)
✨ breed information
✨ hands-on learning
✨ fun goat facts & games

But we’d absolutely love more ideas to help make goat sections really engaging and memorable for the public!

If you’ve seen something brilliant at a show, made your own displays, or have resources/props/signage ideas we could use, please drop them below ⬇️

Let’s make goats the BEST part of the showground 🐐🖤

Batman out on patrol 🖤🐐Our big British Alpine boy, Horsehay Batman, taking his job of supervising very seriously… especi...
28/05/2026

Batman out on patrol 🖤🐐

Our big British Alpine boy, Horsehay Batman, taking his job of supervising very seriously… especially if there’s fresh grass involved. 🌱

Gentle giant, professional cuddle collector, and definitely convinced the pushchair belongs to him.

9 years ago today we lost the legend who started Horsehay Goats — my grandad and my best friend, Brian.The strongest, br...
26/05/2026

9 years ago today we lost the legend who started Horsehay Goats — my grandad and my best friend, Brian.

The strongest, bravest man I’ve ever known. He built Horsehay Goats from the ground up with pure hard work, passion, and a love for the goats that never faded. He made jokes through his cancer diagnosis and fought it right to the very end. No matter what he was facing, he always put his family first — and the goats always came first too. Even on the day he passed, we were having a huge conversation about the milk results from the last show.

He would have absolutely loved meeting all his great grandchildren, and I know he’d be completely over the moon watching Medi grow up surrounded by the goats he adored so much. Seeing another generation raised amongst the chaos, the kidding pens, and the milking shed would have meant everything to him.

These goats meant just as much to him as they do to us now, and everything I know about goats started with him. From the hard work, to the stubbornness, to the love for the animals — Horsehay exists because of him.

Not a day goes by where he isn’t part of this journey in some way. Every kidding season, every milking, every chaos-filled goat moment reminds me of him.

I’ll keep sharing his legacy, keep building what he started, and keep making him proud.

Horsehay Goats will always have a little bit of Grandad in it. 🤍

We’ve got a new kid on the block…A new boy.(No, we absolutely did not need three boys. But unless the perfect home comes...
25/05/2026

We’ve got a new kid on the block…

A new boy.

(No, we absolutely did not need three boys. But unless the perfect home comes along for one of the big lads… apparently three boys are staying here now.)

AND before anyone says anything — I have technically not broken my rule about not buying any more goats in because technically he was not a buy… he was a swap.

Nova has gone off to live with Shirley, and in exchange Bertie has arrived here at Horsehay Goats.

We’re not being dramatic when we say he makes Tilly look quiet. And considering Tilly is basically a foghorn with legs, that’s saying something.

This tiny chaos goblin was only born on the 18th of March and already runs the place like he pays rent.

We hope Nova is being just as noisy and disruptive for Shirley as Bertie is being for us. Fair’s fair.

But honestly, we already love him lots and can’t wait to watch him grow up and see the kind of kids he’s going to produce here at Horsehay Goats. Even if we may never experience peace and quiet again.

It’s hot. Too hot.The goats are sulking in every scrap of shade they can find. The humans are moaning. The water intake ...
25/05/2026

It’s hot. Too hot.

The goats are sulking in every scrap of shade they can find. The humans are moaning. The water intake is through the roof — which is brilliant for the goats, less brilliant for the people carrying endless buckets back and forth in 5000° heat. Anyone who braves the heat ends up like puddles of goats in minutes.

Everyone is grumpy. Everyone is dramatic. Everyone is suffering.

The milkers are glaring at us like this weather is personally our fault, the kids are flat out like melted marshmallows, and even the usually chaotic ones have given up causing trouble.

Roll on rain. Or autumn. Or Antarctica.

Yesterdays episode of Horsehay Goats: Feral Farming Edition was brought to you by angry bees and failed bachelor pad ren...
24/05/2026

Yesterdays episode of Horsehay Goats: Feral Farming Edition was brought to you by angry bees and failed bachelor pad renovations 🐝

The girls’ fencing? Done perfectly. No issues. We were feeling confident. Professional even.

Then we headed down to fence the boys’ future bachelor pad… conveniently located near some bee hives.

“No worries,” we said. “We’re not even close to them.”

Within minutes Rhys got stung. Then his dad got stung. Meanwhile I was sat safely in the truck with the windows up because I’ve survived 31 years without being stung and I’m committed to keeping it that way 😌

Suddenly Rhys is shouting for me to drive while planning to launch himself onto the moving truck, his poor dad is abandoned holding fence posts, and the bees have decided we are public enemy number one.

Rhys heroically goes back to help load the posts in… only for his own dad to climb into the truck and leave him behind 😭

So there I am, acting as getaway driver while Rhys jumps into the back of the truck and we flee the scene pursued by a swarm of furious bees 🛻💨🐝

Thankfully Medi had the most brains out of all of us and stayed up with her goats and her Mamgu well out of the way 🐐😊

Safe to say the boys can stay in with the girls for now because the bachelor pad plans have officially been postponed 🤣

Taz and Tonka have officially clocked out for the day ☀️🥵While the humans are fencing in this heat, they’ve taken up a s...
23/05/2026

Taz and Tonka have officially clocked out for the day ☀️🥵

While the humans are fencing in this heat, they’ve taken up a supervisory role from the shade of the truck… occasionally opening one eye to check standards are being maintained 👀🐶

To be fair, even the goats are questioning whose idea this was today.

Doodle is feeling personally victimised today. 💔For MONTHS, she has been Medi’s chosen one. The pushchair shadow. The “p...
22/05/2026

Doodle is feeling personally victimised today. 💔

For MONTHS, she has been Medi’s chosen one. The pushchair shadow. The “pick me, pick me” baby. The queen of fusses.

But apparently there’s a new favourite now…

Tawny.

Yes. THAT Tawny.

The same Tawny who acts like I’m trying to collect unpaid taxes every time I walk towards her. The same Tawny who sees me coming and immediately files for witness protection.

Yet somehow… when Medi is in the pushchair? Tawny strolls over for cuddles like they’re lifelong best friends. 😭

Doodle watched this betrayal unfold in real time and honestly hasn’t recovered since.

Think I’ve already used up today’s quota of chaos before 7am 😅Went out to the shed to grab the hay and left Medi asleep ...
20/05/2026

Think I’ve already used up today’s quota of chaos before 7am 😅

Went out to the shed to grab the hay and left Medi asleep in her pushchair in the milking shed while I was literally gone for two seconds. Turned around and saw something brush past the pushchair. Didn’t see what it was… just movement.

Instant panic.
“OMG it’s a rat.”
“What do I do?!”
Cue me dragging the pushchair backwards out of the shed in full fight-or-flight mode…

…only to discover a pheasant sat in there looking just as horrified to see me as I was to see him 😂

Poor thing launched itself straight at me trying to escape because I was stood in front of the only exit. I flapped, he flapped, Medi slept through the whole thing completely unbothered.

Nerves tested and it’s only 8am 🫠

POV: you went to a goat show… and accidentally got a whole life 😅🐐Huge congratulations to Rhys for officially surviving ...
18/05/2026

POV: you went to a goat show… and accidentally got a whole life 😅🐐

Huge congratulations to Rhys for officially surviving 2 years with me — and it all started right here, at a goat show.

I’ve included the photo from day one… the exact moment he realised what he’d signed up for — looking far too happy showing a goat (and winning a rosette!) for someone who had just met me 📸🐐

Most people meet in normal places… we met surrounded by straw, livestock, and chaos — which honestly explains everything that’s followed.

And now we’ve added little Medi into the mix 🍼🐐 — being brought up right in the middle of it all. So unfortunately for Rhys… he’s well and truly stuck with me now.

Between the early mornings, endless goat jobs, and whatever else I bring home, he’s earned more than just a congratulations… probably hazard pay at this point 🏅

Thanks for sticking through it all (and secretly loving it). The goats would also like to thank you for your ongoing service… whether you volunteered or not.

Here’s to many more years of chaos 🖤
– Horsehay Goats

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